· Private foundation
A D Johnson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE HAP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RISE UP FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JOYFUL NOISE CHRISTIAN PRE-SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MCHENRY RIVERWALK FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS AT METROPOLIS | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THE DONNA REED FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| LAKEMOOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,500 |
| ALEXANDER LEIGH CENTER FOR AUTISM | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- THThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +359%
- JNJoyful Noise Christian Pre-School Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +71%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TKTHE KEMPE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +51%
- UCUS CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPSone grant, 2020 · $10k
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Chimes' mission is to foster a welcoming community where individuals of differing abilities and behavioral health needs are supported. the organization enables futures by providing support, advocacy, and solutions that enhance…
We see and honor the personhood and autonomy of autistic and neurodivergent individuals. we work every day to educate and guide micc participants in creating and sustaining the lives they want to live.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The international crane foundation works worldwide to conserve cranes and the ecosystems, watersheds, and flyways on which they depend. we provide knowledge, leadership, and inspiration to engage people in resolving threats to cranes and…
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Anderson center for autism is a not for profit organization dedicated to providing the highest quality programs possible for children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. (continued on schedule o) equally important…
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.
The make-a-wish foundation of montana creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Joyful Noise Christian Pre-School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds RISE UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Joyful Noise Christian Pre-School Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCHENRY RIVERWALK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts at Metropolis ↗
- Who funds THE KEMPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER LEIGH CENTER FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE DONNA REED FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MOOSEHEART CHILD CITY AND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE AND MOBILITY CIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A D Johnson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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